Another possibility to store papers and small objects
was to install a rigid net. Among the most popular was the SVIP
model, produced by the Swedish company Svedlung.

The SVIT was a wire net about 45 cm
wide, which was suspended from the roof of the
car without the need for drilling holes. It was ivory
in color, with a mesh of about 10 cm per side, so not
suitable to lay small objects. The distance from the roof was limited
to about 8cm. In the case of vehicles equipped
with sunroof, there was the possibility to mount the SVIT in
the rear of the car.

This solution had major flaws: first, unless you secure them
spins, during the drive they had a tendency to move and to
fall on the driver’s head, which could not be a good
experience. During a test, Gute Fahrt journalists have
established that the maps were falling after about a minute and
a half, while a pair of gloves can resist no more than
two minutes.
The main drawback, however,
was still tied to safety: a metal object hanging
from the roof could indeed become very dangerous in the
case of impact, considering that it was at the height of the
head.

The Standard is the poor brother of the Beetle that we all know, the Export model.Its history and evolution had developed independently and discreetly, leaving little trace in the literature in the past.Also the literature of today offers very few information on it, and when it does is often superficial, incomplete, if not simply wrong.

But Standard is not only the poor variant of the beetle, it is also an attitude, a way of seeing things, paying attention to everything, by its nature, goes unnoticed because it is not trendy, not glamor, and is not cause of admiration, emulation, desire.